China recently implemented a “zero-tariff” policy for 53 countries in Africa. As Chinese and African citizens increasingly reap the mutual benefits of trade, America is losing out by heading in the opposite direction. China imports…

BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Tuesday night in China for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped up his own trip to Beijing. Putin’s plane landed…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that their two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue is not handled properly, an unusually harsh admonition that stood in contrast…

When President Trump attacked Iran on Feb. 28, we called his decision reckless. He went to war without seeking congressional approval or the support of most allies. He offered thin and contradictory justifications to the…

North Korea is unique in turning a putatively communist state into a dynastic system now in its third generation.  So while the proposition that Kim Jong-un’s teenage daughter will inherit power is sparking debate, unexpected…

The basic storyline of Alysa Liu’s recent Olympic triumph was plenty inspiring: Young Chinese American figure-skating phenom quits the sport at age 16, citing burnout, returns at 18, and with carefree charm at 20 secures…

The American-Israeli war on Iran has spiked oil prices, as tankers hesitate to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean through which some 20 percent of…

Tesla’s factory in Shanghai produces far more cars per worker as its plant in California. The gap reflects something unsettling about China’s broader edge in manufacturing: It has figured out how to organize production around…

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, once warned that nuclear rivalry was like “two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own…

If the sentence handed to the media mogul Jimmy Lai was meant to surprise, it would have been shorter.  Twenty years behind bars is not a burst of rage. It is a sentence designed to…